Reflecting the soul
If Beatrice Bissara gives a special attention, and is so interested in the painted or sculpted portrait, it is because the human face is "the most fascinating surface of the earth", as Lichtenberg* wrote.
For the artist, the face, like the body, has a history. And it is this reality, which gives the full meaning to the concept of "a face expression” that the artist seeks to capture.
The face is both universal in its physiological simplicity, and in its essential poorness and also very complex, because of its uniqueness, in the infinite combination of the facial appearances.
To catch a face, a look, as faithful and gracious as possible - this “reflection of the soul”, as it is often said - is undoubtedly for an artist one of the most difficult, delicate and complex exercise. It’s in this perilous gamble that Beatrice Bissara launches into, making on demand sculpted portraits.
* Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) - Aphorisms "The mirror of the soul”-Ed Jose Corti, 1997
